brick venereal
Australian informal, derogatory
adjective
(Of a house) of timber-frame or concrete-block construction with a facing of brick, in the style of modern suburban developments: thousands of dinners were being whipped up in white ovens in brick venereal homes...
- Fifty-seven brick venereal units will be built.
- His parents' house was brick-venereal.
- Finally we drove into the brick venereal band that swelled around the city.
noun
A suburban house of timber-frame or concrete-block construction with a facing of brick: we drove along avenues of sprawling brick venereals...
- We'll all be happy in our cream brick venereals with nose-in parking and the stench of raw sewage.
- If I'd wanted someone to lay the foundations of a bloody brick venereal on top of my boy's grave I would have bought a kit house.
- They lived in a really nice three-bedroom brick venereal in Ringwood.
Origin
1970s: a pun on veneer and venereal.